Sam Schube

The idea was simple: reunite four college teammates in the pros, and bring a title to the Garden. The reality was more complicated. This is the story of the Nova Knicks.

The breakout star of the Paris Olympics fills us in on his remarkable week, Pommel Horse Guy culture, and representing for glasses-wearers everywhere.

GQ hit the cobblestones of Paris to get a look at the unprecedented combo of athleticism and high fashion that is the 2024 Olympic Games.

19 Jul 2024 ... Ahead of the Paris Olympics, the marathon GOAT told GQ about gunning for an unprecedented gold-medal three-peat, working with Nike to bring ...

About a decade ago, regular attendees of Miami’s monthly Critical Mass bike ride noticed one new (particularly tall) attendee: LeBron James, who began participating in the ride whenever his day job with the Miami Heat allowed it. “You’d ride past somebody and they’re like, “Was that…? No, there’s no way. Oh shit, that was!” he told me one day earlier this spring. We were sitting in his trailer on a Los Angeles studio lot, where he was spending the day shooting some footage for Canyon, the German…

The video—a clip of an NBA broadcast, 53 seconds long, buried deep on YouTube—at first seems to be about Robert Sarver, the since-deposed owner of the Phoenix Suns. We’re in the closing moments of a Sun-Lakers game, Phoenix cruising to an eventual win, and as the camera cuts to Sarver, color commentator Bill Walton tees up what appears to be a tribute. “Robert Sarver, from San Diego, University of Arizona, bought the team from Jerry Colangelo, and the vision,”—his rumble suddenly becomes thunder…

Not long ago, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal faced off at the top of a snowy mountain. This wasn’t a far-flung tennis exhibition; instead, the two titans met on a peak in the Dolomites mountain range in Italy for a photoshoot for Louis Vuitton’s long-running Core Values campaign. The photograph, taken by Annie Leibovitz and released today, finds the longtime rivals hiking through the snowy terrain, LV packs on their shoulders. So how do you get two GOATs to join forces on a snowy mountaintop? Gi…

Early Friday morning, the golf world woke to startling news: Scottie Scheffler, the world’s number-one-ranked golfer, had been arrested while on his way to tee off in the second round of the PGA Championship at Valhalla Country Club, in Louisville, Kentucky. Scheffler was booked and taken to jail around 5 a.m. on charges that included second-degree assault of a police officer and reckless driving; by 9 a.m., he’d been released, and managed to make his 10:08 a.m. tee time. As of this writing, he’…

When it came time to decide what he’d wear to the NFL Draft, newly-minted Chicago Bear Caleb Williams had two goals. He wanted to “be unique, be one of a kind,” he told me a few days before being drafted first overall. This was no surprise: since he was a kid, Williams has prepared diligently—perhaps obsessively—to become a quarterback the likes of which football has never before seen. And in his two seasons at USC, he was particularly unafraid to show off the qualities (from his game-breaking t…

This year, the just-concluded women’s college basketball season seemed to also double as a Caitlin Clark record-breaking exhibition. In a two-week span in mid-February, as she put the bow on a one-of-one college career, Clark toppled a series of never-to-be-busted records that left her standing alone as the most decorated scorer in college hoops history. And then, on Monday night at the WNBA Draft in Brooklyn, Caitlin Clark made history again—this time without even touching a ball. In hitting th…

In December, Apple completed the first season of a ten-year deal to serve as the exclusive broadcast partner of Major League Soccer—to date, the most ambitious of the tech company’s forays into the world of sports, and a hint at its ambitions for that lucrative corner of the entertainment world. Today, the Cupertino giant is launching a new product that, while smaller in scale, counts as another effort to deepen the relationship between fans and the sports they love: a free iPhone app called, si…

It’s been a season of firsts for Victor Wembanyama. The 7’4” Spurs rookie is midway through his first NBA season, after being selected first overall in the 2023 NBA Draft. He’s fresh off his first All-Star Weekend, where played in the Rising Stars Challenge—and kept plenty busy off the court, too. Now, another first: today, the 20 year old joins Louis Vuitton as the French luxury brand’s newest ambassador. “To me, it’s the best,” Wembanyama tells GQ in an exclusive interview. “It’s the best part…

I’ve only known Davide Baroncini for a few minutes, but already he’s poured me an espresso, lit for me a stubby Toscano Italian cigar, and draped lovingly over my shoulders a chunky navy cardigan of his own design. It’s a warm spring afternoon in relatively sleepy Pasadena, clear on the other side of town from LA’s best-known menswear shops, and we’re at what is, for now, the storefront for his brand, Ghiaia Cashmere: a shoebox in an old-fashioned shopping arcade. The space, all 340 square feet…

Barry Sanders has just piped a 3 wood maybe 220 yards, splitting the fairway of the 10th hole at the La Cañada Flintridge Country Club, nestled in the foothills northeast of Los Angeles. It’s about as good a first shot as you can hope for. That much is clear to me, at least, and to Sanders’ agent, and to the husband-and-wife member couple hosting us this morning, and quite possibly to the birds chirping and the rabbits hopping and the coyotes lurking around the golf course. It’s not at all clear…

This story was featured in The Must Read, a newsletter in which our editors recommend one can’t-miss GQ story every weekday. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. You can count the number of books written by sports agents on one hand. And you can count the number of good books written by sports agents on Captain Hook’s hand. (The pointy one.) Earlier this month, Klutch Sports founder and CEO Rich Paul joined the latter group with Lucky Me, a sharp, honest memoir (written with Jesse Washington)…

Longtime Apple executive Eddy Cue happens to be an enormous sports fan. And with Apple entering the wild west of broadcasting live sports, he’s ready to shake up the way we watch games on TV—with a little help from none other than Leo Messi.

Caleb Williams has already won a Heisman, resurrected a storied USC program, and become a highly paid pioneer in this newly lucrative era of college sports. Why would he ever want to leave school?

It’s been a heady few weeks for Viktor Hovland. The Norwegian golfer, 25, stormed his way through the PGA Tour’s season-ending FedEx Cup playoffs, following up a 13th-place finish at the St. Jude Invitational in Memphis with back-to-back wins at the BMW Championship in Chicago and the for-all-the-marbles TOUR Championship in Atlanta this weekend. That final win brought with it a gobsmacking $18 million check—not that Hovland, as he explained to GQ, is exactly overflowing with ideas of how to spe…

Ahead of the release of a new memoir, the legendary point guard talks about his unparalleled career—and finding that he’d been traded via a text from his son.

As his new audio project begins to take shape, we spoke with the longtime ESPN figure about the state of sports media, his plans for what’s next, and the secret skill that makes Stephen A. Smith great.